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The ACHIEVER is published by Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
as an official employee communications periodical. Informa-
tion concerning its contents may be obtained by writing to:
Editor, the ACHIEVER, 2701 North Harbor Drive, P.O. Box
85311, San Diego, California 92138-5311 or by calling
(619)291-7311, Ext. 1368.

ROBERT A. K. MITCHELL President

KENNETH A. CARSON Vice President

Human Resources

JACK G. BROWARD Editor

About Our Cover

THE RENDERING by Teledyne
Ryan Aeronautical illustrator Hans
Olson in early 1988 of a Medium-
Range Unmanned Air Vehicle was
most prophetic. The Naval Air
Systems Command announced
the selection of TRA for full-scale
engineering development of the
MRUAV system on May 5, 1989
and followed that announcement
on June 30, 1989 of the contract
award to TRA.

President's Message

As you all know, we are under contract to the
I Naval Air Systenns Command through the
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Joint Project Office to
develop a new Medium-Range Unmanned Air
Vehicle System.

That we were selected over our competitors re-
flects an achievement produced through hard work,
dedication and excellence by a large group of people
throughout the Company.

From the start, the project was recognized as one
which was critical to our survival in an area of busi-
ness in which we have held a strong lead in the past.

I believe we won this competition for three reasons.
First, our proposal was detailed, accurate and of
the highest quality. Second, we had a new product,
derived from our Model 324, and our technical ap-
proach was superior Finally, we demonstrated a
Company commitment to the program which included
the fast turnaround prototype vehicle development,
ground- and flight-test program; 120 days from start
of design to test completion.

Overall, our Ryan team did an outstanding job. The
credit for this success goes to everyone. Those not
directly involved in this program, but kept our other
business on track during this period, are equally
deserving of credit for the success we achieved.

Thank you and well done!

Of equal priority for this Company is the concem
for ethics and the code of business conduct that
guides our operation.

The mandatory ethics training program in which
all TRA employees are enrolled emphasizes new
regulations governing government contractors. These
regulations place accountability at the individual
employee level.

Our success in the mid-range competition
resulting from technical superiority and performance
must now be matched by the integrity and ethical
standards to which the Company is equally
committed.

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President. TRA

SUMMER 1989

TACTICAL AIR-LAUNCH capabilities demonstrated by Model 350 on
Oct. 22, 1988 during a 22-minute first flight was made from an F-4C
"Phantom" fighter. Sequence of photos illustrates the Medium-
Range UAV's stability through the air-launch procedure. Flight
was concluded by deployment of Model 350's onboard parachute.

Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
helped give birth more than
25 years ago to an 'Age of
the Remotely Piloted Vehicle. '
Now, it is tasked to help
introduce the new . . .

EraOfTheUAV

Under terms of an initial contract valued
at $69.6 million that was issued June 30
by the Naval Air Systems Command,
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical is engaged in full-
scale engineering development of a Medium-
Range Unmanned Air Vehicle (MRUAV) system
for use by the Navy, Air Force and Marine
Corps.

TRA President Robert A.K. Mitchelt said
the new requirement represents one of the
largest orders of its l<ind in his company's
67-year history.

As significant as the work period of more than
three years that lies ahead for TRA is the evolu-
tion of an advanced technology system that will
complement manned air-reconnaissance re-
quirements. In operational use, according to the
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Joint Project Office
in Washington, D.C., the MRUAV will provide
a quick-response capability for obtaining high-
quality imagery of heavily defended targets in
advance of and following air strikes.

The selection of targets as well as weapons
to be used will be based largely on the imagery
provided by the MRUAV system which is to be
designed for tactical air-launch operations.

Guiding TRA's MRUAV operations will be
Vice President Norman S. Sakamoto, a vet-
eran Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV) program
manager at TRA since the early 1960s. It was
during the Vietnam era that TRA developed
and produced a family of RPVs for reconnais-
sance and related military missions and earned
distinctions for helping introduce the technol-
ogy as well as air vehicles that opened the
"Era of RPVs" in America.

Sakamoto's subsequent assignments in-
cluded management of the high-altitude, long-
endurance Compass Cope program in the
late 1970s. Under contract to the Air Force,
two of the broad-winged RPVs were built and
flight-tested, establishing a world record for
unmanned long-endurance flight.
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More recently, starting in 1984 under con-
tract to the government of Egypt, Sakamoto
guided to a liighiy successful conclusion four
years later the design, development and flight
testing, of an advanced technology RPV sys-
tem. Twenty-nine RPVs and three Launch
and Recovery Systems, from which the RPVs
are ground-launched into
flight and commanded
and controlled, have been
delivered to Egypt.

It was, to a large de-
gree, the successful con-
clusion of the Model 324
program and a series of
flight tests at TRA's Flight
Test Facility based at the
Mojave airport, that trig-
gered TRA's confidence
as it entered into the
MRUAV competition in
early 1988.

From its decision to en-
ter the competition, de-
velop a formal proposal,
design, develop and start
flight-test operations of
a proof-of-concept Model MODEL

350 MRUAV, required 59
days! Sixty-one years earlier, the company
entered into an equally daring mission: to
design and build the Ryan Spirit of St. Louis for
use by Charles Lindbergh in his epic, solo flight
across the Atlantic.

The Model 350 program beat that record by
24 hours. And topped its own marathon efforts
with a "textbook perfect" 22-minute maiden
flight by the Model 350 prototype Oct. 22, 1988

Leading the way for its maiden flight was a
series of captive tests while suspended from

an F-4C leased by Flight Systems, Inc. Because
there was only this single prototype, Sakamoto's
team inched its way through the captive flight-
test program as systems integration and aero-
dynamic verifications were secured with each
successive captive flight.

Because of tightly restricted airspace sur-
rounding the Mojave Civilian Flight Test Center,

350 achieved flawless first flight October 22.

captive flight test operations by the TRA team
were conducted only on weekends and within
a "window" of several hours duration.

The air-launch operation on Saturday Oct. 22
proceeded through the usual preflight systems
checks, starting in the predawn hours. Up-
loaded aboard the "Phantom" fighter and
following a final series of integration system
checks, the air-launch aircraft roared down the
runway with its Model 350 intact.

At 7:15 a.m. and 15,000-feet altitude, Model

FAMILY of unmanned vehicles designed,
developed and produced by TRA includes
(from top, clockwise) Model 324 advanced
technology RPV system with Launch and
Recovery Vehicle; AQM-34L RPV system;
Firebolt high-altitude, supersonic aerial tar-
get; BQM-34E/F Supersonic Firebee; Model
410 long-endurance UAV. Not shown is
Model 350 medium-range UAV.

350 was launched into flight, climbed by remote
control to 27,500 feet, commanded through a
series of turns and banks, then descended to
10.000 feet for command of parachute recovery
over a preselected site.

Flying in the F-100 chase aircraft, observer-
photographer John Ligon would remark dur-
ing a flight debrief session that "it was the
smoothest air launch I've ever witnessed. The
Model 350 performed flawlessly."

The 16.3-foot-long Model 350 was displayed
before global audiences attending 1989's Paris
Air Show as a focal point of Teledyne's com-
bined exhibits representing 27 subsidiary com-
panies. Significantly it was the Ryan Spirit of
St. Louis in 1927 that captured the world's ad-
miration in the City of Lights.

Lindbergh's historic landing in Paris follow-
ing 33 hours and 30 minutes after takeoff from
Roosevelt Field in Long Island. N.Y. was
chronicled worldwide as the flight test that
opened the way for transoceanic flight.

From that point in the early day history of
manned flight and an infinitely broad range of
innovative aircraft concepts that followed, the
company that built Lindbergh's "Spiht" has
maintained a consistent presence on the lead-
ing edge of aviation.

Against that backdrop is posed yet another
advance, one which could well be the most
significant in military operations yet devised.
Selected to comple-
ment manned air-combat
requirements, vehicles
like the MRUAV could
help avoid the exposure
of human aircrews to hos-
tile conditions too severe
for manned strikes. Mili-
tary commanders could
select mission-configured
UAVs for reconnaissance
of heavily defended tar-
gets. And. following des-
ignated strikes against
those targets, conduct
postmission reconnais-
sance for damage as-
sessments.

Not until its implemen-
tation, sometime in the
1988 early half of the next de-

cade, can the full range
of potential applications offered by MRUAVs
be fully developed. Beyond all question in
this summer of 1989, there exists a require-
ment by the Navy. Air Force and Marine Corps
for its availability.

The full-scale engineering development of
an all-new MRUAV is a threshold leading to
the dawn of perhaps a new period of innova-
tive flight.

One that will someday be recognized as
the Era of the UAV.

SUMMER 1989

TRA'S SOOTH Apache airframe poses against production version advanced attack helicopter following presentation ceremony

After six consecutive years of involve
ment in manufacturing and final as
sembly operations associated with the world's
most advanced combat helicopter, Teledyne
Ryan Aeronautical notched a new
milestone April 4, 1989 by pre-
senting to McDonnell Douglas
Helicopter Company and the
U.S. Army its 500th airframe
shipset for . . .

Fl or all of its pioneering aviation and aero-
space achievements spanning 67 years
of operations in San Diego, there would
come yet another in the early days of April
this year.

Apache airframe number 500 with wings,
tail boom assembly, empennage, hatches
and fairings— fully the largest physical struc-
ture associated with the advanced attack heli-
copter— was presented in formal ceremonies.

in testimony to the achievement was of-
fered the congratulations of U.S. Senator Pete
Wilson, a member of the Senate Armed Ser-
vices Committee.

Wilson, a former San Diego mayor and
state assemblyman, praised TRA employees
for the qualities of workmanship and demon-
strated reliability of the Apache's performance
as the U.S. Army's frontline tank killer

Master of ceremonies and Senior Vice
President, Operations, Bill Cassidy helped
set the stage for ceremonies that included
as an audience some 1,500 employees to

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witness the rollout and presentation of the
milestone shipset.
An operational Apache, flown to San Diego

from Mesa, Ariz, to remind the audience of the
awesome physical characteristics when fully
assembled, created a backdrop to the morn-
ing's activities.

TRA President Bob Mitchell told of his "orien-
tation" flight late last year in an Apache at
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company's
Mesa Final Assembly and Flight Test Center.
He termed the flight, which began in the late
evening and continued into darkness, "the big-
gest thrill of my flying career."

Mitchell commended TRA's Apache team
members for "this milestone achievement"
and called tor continued dedication to the pro-
gram that "has added new distinctions to our
capabilities and produced global recognition
of our accomplishments."

Teledyne, Inc. Senior Vice President Hudson
B. Drake— until January 1988 TRA's chief
executive and Mitchell's immediate predeces-
sor—hailed the 500th Apache delivery as an
achievement that "many believed would never
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ARMY COLONEL Either fields questions from TRA Apactie employees (left). AH-64 Apache was placed on static display following ceremony.

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come." His reference was to a period in early
1984 when the company was experiencing
major difficulties in meeting delivery schedules
and quality standards.

He recalled that period, asl<ing for a show
of hands in the audience of those who also were
assigned here to the Apache program. A forest
of hands shot up in the assembly, acknowledg-
ing with pride how far the program had come.

From McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Com-
pany came Executive Vice President, Program
Management, Norman B. Hirsh, to accept on
behalf of his company the 500th Apache air-
frame and its shipset components.

Recalling the start 16 years ago of Apache
operations in which TRA helped provide air-
frames and components for six prototype air-
craft and a subsequent production require-

ment for Apaches that was issued in 1981,
Hirsh spol<e warmly of the "team association"
between his company and TRA in supplying
the U.S. Army with the world's finest aircraft
of its kind.

He said that the Apache fleet now has more
than 160,000 hours of accumulated flight time
with three Apache battalions now deployed in
West Germany and 11 more scheduled for de-
ployment in Europe as well as in South Korea.

"The Apache is doing everything the Army
hoped for plus much more," he noted, quoting
a message from the Army staff:

"In the Apache, the Army has a superb fight-
ing system— the best of its class in the world.
Every day, we're learning that the Apache's
fighting potentials exceed our expectations as
well as our ability to exploit that potential."

"We have climbed many mountains to-

gether," noted Hirsh, pointing to his accep-
tance of the 500th airframe shipset and those
he expects to be delivered to the U.S. Army
Production is expected to continue through
mid-1993 under current requirements, with
potential international sales to follow, accord-
ing to Hirsh,

To close the ceremony was Army Colonel
Rodney Either who, accompanied by Chief
Warrant Officer Terry Rose, flew the Mesa-
based Apache to San Diego for its display

Referring to TRA as the "home" of the
Apache, "because you provide the biggest
single component of the aircraft," Either
singled out for his personal commendation
TRA's "supervisors, foremen and team lead-
ers— the small units within the overall pro-
gram—who really deserve the credit for the
accomplishment we're witnessing today."

SHIPSET components for 500th airframe were displayed for audience inspection during ceremony

In a grueling 22-minute display of newly
developed performance qualities, an Air
Force BQM'34A Firebee has helped to
introduce a new era in the art of . . .

Threat
Simulation

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The Firebee helps us every day in learning more
about our aircraft and its weapon systems. '

Colonel William K. Matthews
U.S. Air Force

4n improved version of Teledyne Ryan
Aeronautlcal's venerable Firebee aerial
target system has helped to begin a
chapter in threat simulation for the U.S. Air
Force, adding to a history that now spans more
than four decades.

The BQM-34A Firebee, equipped with a
Microprocessor Flight Control System (MFCS)
and an uprated turbojet engine, completed its
inaugural flight Friday April 28, 1989 over Gulf
of Mexico ranges adjacent to Tyndall and Eglln
Air Force bases in Florida.

From ground launch at Tyndall to parachute
recovery, the remotely controlled drone per-
formed "without a hitch," according to TRA
Director of Firebee Programs, Walt Hamilton.
He said the ground-launched target climbed
on command, first to 10,000 feet, then to
20,000 feet to per-

Master Sergeant David Kitchens, the non-
commissioned officer in charge of the 475th
Group's subscale targets branch, explained
what advantages the improved Firebee
represents in the user environment.

"First, the new flight control system (MFCS)
makes the Firebee a more challenging and ver-
satile aerial target. As it expands the drone's
performance envelope with more precise con-
trol, it also allows for a wider selection of
maneuvers, such as barrel rolls and other
evasive tactics.

"All of these qualities make the Firebee
more challenging during actual missile firing
training exercises," he observed.

Included in the MFCS are automatic speed
controls, airspeed references, and accelera-
tion mode, automatic in-flight self-testing and

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form a broad range
of turns, banks and
other evasive maneu-
vers characterizing an
enemy threat source.

Colonel William K.
Matthews, command-
er of the 475th Weap-
ons Evaluation Group
based at Tyndall, and
under whose cogni-
zance aerial target
operations are con-
ducted, said the im-
proved Firebee's first
flight produced "very
favorable" reactions.

It was Matthews
who accepted delivery
of the same Firebee
on its rollout Jan. 17
in a symbolic start of
new Air Force Firebee
production.

"The flat, smooth
launch and climb-out
was very impressive,"
he noted, adding that
"the Firebee helps
us every day in learning more about our fault diagnostic capabilities,
aircraft and its weapon systems; what I might The BQM-34A's new propulsion system is
need to do to attack an enemy aircraft." a recycled J85-100 turbojet that boosts the

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FIRST of 50 uprated Firebees was rolled out in January during formal ceremonies

drone's thrust to two times its weight, de-
pending on mission configurations. The en-
gine is stocked in government inventories
following use in manned aircraft. With the
incorporation of the higher thrust engine and
a three-axis autopilot, the new Firebee is able
to perform at higher climb rates and maneu-
vers at 6 g's.

TRA Vice President, Business Develop-
ment, Tony Richards said that an initial order
for 50 of the improved Firebees will be de-
livered to Tyndall at rates of nine units monthly
through late 1989. Deliveries are being made,
meanwhile, of Army MQM-34D Firebees and
Navy BQM-34S versions of the high-perfor-
mance drones.

Currently, the Air Force is averaging 14
flights per Firebee, a rate of utilization that is
expected to increase
with the improved
BQM-34A systems,
according to Richards.
He said that the new-
ly developed MFCS
combined with added
thrust offers a sig-
nificantly increased
rate of survivability.

It was a joint Air
Force-Army require-
ment issued in 1949
that led to the devel-
opment of a growth-
version Firebee. Since
then the high-per-
formance drone has
experienced six modi-
fications in airframe,
command and con-
trol systems, as well
as in the propulsion
systems.

As the largest sub-
scale aerial target
system in U.S. inven-
tories, the Firebee's
new enhancements
are designed to help
support weapon systems development, test
and evaluation, and for utilization in combat
training programs.

SUMMER 1989

C-17 TOOLING FIXTURE delivered by TRA in April stands three stories tall and measures triple that distance in length

Evolution of the Air Force's
new C-1 7 airlifter transport
projects a new era in air
mobility for the United
States. Not unlike major
advances in aviation and
aerospace of the past,
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
is once again helping . .

outset to provide inter- as well as intratheater
airlift. This flexibility will reduce deployment
time and congestion at rear-area aerial ports,
eliminate needs to transship materials to for-
ward areas and ease demands on C-130s for
intratheater airlift.
TRA's initial involvement with C-17 support

October 1987. More than 450 assembly-type
tools were completed by April under this same
pact, according to TRA Director of Tooling,
Rudy Cribb.

He said that TRA is currently engaged in
creating 70 production part patterns to be
delivered to Douglas' Long Beach facility and

Build For The Future

Standing three stories tall and triple that
.measure in length, the largest tooling
fixture of its kind built by Teledyne Ryan
Aeronautical has been delivered to Douglas
Aircraft for use in producing the new Air Force
C-17 airlifter transport.

The fixture will be used in mating aft fuselage
sections of the behemoth transport in Douglas'
final assembly facility at Long Beach, Calif. A
first flight of the C-17 is scheduled in late 1990
with 12 aircraft to begin initial operations with
the Military Airlift Command in 1992.

Air Force plans call for a total of 210 C-1 7s,
subject to budgetary requirements. It will be the
first transport aircraft to be designed from the

included creation of master models of the
C-17's main landing gear wheel pods. Built
under contract to McDonnell Douglas Heli-
copter Company, the master models were the
largest of their kind built by TRA. Each land-
ing gear pod on the C-17 houses 12 wheels.
The master models from which the pods will
be constructed measure 16 feet in width and
more than 70 feet in length. The project in-
cluded use of 37 tons of plaster which was
"sculpted" over more than 200 templates, each
weighing 400 pounds.

Work on the aft fuselage tooling fixture
began at TRA late last year under a Service
and Support contract which was awarded in

over 63 more to MDHC facilities at Mesa, Ariz.
The patterns will be used in fabrication of the
wheel pod surfaces.

Cribb believes the two C-17 requirements
and TRA's response has helped establish
a berth for the company on the C-17 team.
"We've certainly distinguished our capabili-
ties, creating awareness of the diverse range
of talents we possess." He believes that TRA
offers response to broad ranges of work re-
quirements in military as well as commercial
aircraft programs.

Of immediate interest to Cribb are the re-
quirements associated with C-17 production
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ILLUSTRATION shows howtooling fixture will
be used in mating of aft fuselage section
of C-17. Aircraft's fuselage, when fully as-
sembled, will measure 175.2 feet, featuring
a cargo bay 88 feet long and 18 feet wide.

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operations. He anticipates that TRA will be
called upon— as it has been in the past— to
shoulder some of the work responsibilities as
production operations intensify.

The needs of the Army and Marine Corps
were driving factors in the design of the C-17.
The cargo hold, for instance, was sized to
accommodate an Army AH-64 Apache hell-
copter, from the ground to its rotor cap. The
cargo hold stretches 88 feet in length and
18 feet in width. With a wingspan of 165 feet,
the C-17 fuselage measures 175.2 feet and is
powered by 4 jet engines which generate a
combined thrust of 166,800 pounds.

The C-17's unique qualities of design will
enable it to take off with a payload of 167,000
pounds from a 7,600-foot runway fly 2,400
nautical miles and land on a small, austere
airfield in 3,000 feet. The ferry range is 4,700
nautical miles.

Final assembly of the C-17s is scheduled
at Long Beach in Douglas' Building 54 which
covers more than 25 acres of under-roof
floor space.

The aft fuselage tooling fixture built by TRA
is sized to handle mating of structures that in-
clude the aircraft's T-tail assembly

With delivery of the fixture now completed,
Cribb views the project as a major test of capa-
bilities possessed by TRA. "We've demon-
strated responsiveness to unique requirements
in two separate C-17 projects. I'm confident that
we'll continue our association with the C-17
program well into the future."

ART RENDERING of C-17 airliHer in a 'wheels
down' approach to landing depicts pods that
house 12 wheels. TRA created master models
of pods under contract to McDonnell Douglas
Helicopter Company, then built tooling fixture.

The two requirements have
helped establish a berth for
the company on the 0-17 team.

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Never before had RPVs been assigned
to missions in this area of the globe.
The Air Force 6514th distinguished its
assignment, using vintage drones
to operate in the latitudes of . .

70 Degrees North

Flor 26 days of constant daylight during
I the month of June 1989, a contingent of
Air Force 6514th Test Squadron personnel
supported by a small group of Teledyne Ryan
Aeronautical technicians performed a mis-
sion unlike any In the history of unmanned
aircraft operations.

Operating from tiny Barter Island, a remote
North Warning Site that helps guard Alaska's
north slopes from attacks against North Amer-
ica, the Hill AFB, Utah-based squadron con-
ducted 16 flights of vintage RPVs in simulations
of threat sources.

Under the program management of veteran
TRA field service engineer Billy Sved, eight
AQM-34L Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs)
restored to active Inventories, were air-launched
Into flight from the 6514th 's NC-130H transport.
Uploaded aboard the launch aircraft and
flown out to distances of 100 miles over the

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Arctic Ocean, each of the drones conducted
simulations of cruise missiles and attacking air-
craft In tests of a newly Installed radar system
located at Barter Island.

Captain Larry WIneteer, RPV Program
Manager for the 6514th and pilot of the
NC-130H aircraft which Is configured for air
launch, tracking, command and control opera-
tions, termed the assignment one of "mile-
stone" significance.

His squadron conducted similar tests of
Over-The-Horlzon-Backscatter radar systems
guarding the southeast section of the United
States in early 1988. Operating from Puerto
Rico, WIneteer's group air-launched a series
of drone flights into overwater missions be-
tween Puerto Rico and Bermuda.

Again, In late 1988, the group conducted
drone operations off the coast of Bangor, Me.,
supporting sea trial missile finngs by the Aegis

cruiser USS Philippine Sea. The drone simu-
lated cruise missiles and aircraft attacks.

Not since the close of Vietnam hostilities,
when surplus Model 147 RPVs were placed In
storage by the Air Force, had operations of this
kind been conducted. Faced with requirements
for test operations, the Air Force took 53 of the
vintage drones from Its storage facilities in late
1977. They were transferred to Hill AFB for flight
testing and placed In the active Inventories.

Response to requirements, a key phrase
In the 6514th Test Squadron's mission, has
assumed growing, new demands as a key
support element within the U.S. Defense es-
tablishment today Key to its expanding capa-
bilities Is the configuration of a second NC-130H
"Hercules" drone launch aircraft.

Captain WIneteer estimates that his orga-
nization can respond to mobile target sup-
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AQM-34L RPV (right) was designed, developed
and produced in the 1960s by TRA as photo-
reconnaissance, surveillance and electronic
vi/arfare assignments. They're in use now as
threat simulators by 6514th Test Squadron.

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port requirements worldwide. Already demon-
strated as a capability that combines cost-
effective appeal with proven capabilities, the
6514th is scheduled to engage in a long-
term Aegis cruiser target support program in
coming months.

Utilizing air transport of drone assets and
support equipment by Military Air Transport
Command aircraft, Wineteer's contingent was
ferried aboard the squadron's air-launch
transport to Barter Island, with additional
ground support cargo aboard.

During the operation, TRA as well as
squadron personnel were housed in austere,
but snugly comfortable quarters maintained by
those who man the North Warning Site for its
year-round operations. A single hangar exists
for mission preparations.

Key to the highly successful completion of
its mission at Barter Island was, according to
Sved, "the detailed planning preparations we
conducted at Hill prior to our departure.

"All engaged in the operation knew in ad-
vance what functions were to be performed. It
was a team effort from start to finish," accord-
ing to Sved.

Included from TRA, in addition to Sved,
were Marvin Mucklebrest, C. B. Jones along
with contract technicians Al Morey, Glen Whit-
timore and Butch Halbritter TRA Chief Pho-
tographer Dave Gossett accompanied the
detachment, documenting the mission in video
and still photos.

NC-130 'HERCULES' with drones (top) conducted 16 flights In radar tests over Arctic Ocean

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SUMMER 1989

COMPANY FACES CHALLENGES'

Mitchell Renews Call For 'Quality, Pride In Work

state Of TR A
Talk Projects
Future Growth

Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical ex-
emplifies the qualities of an aero-
space company at thie leading
edge of its field, according to
TRA President Bob Mitchell who
expressed his views in a "State
of the Company" talk March 30
before TRA's Management Associ-
ation members.

The "Top Management Night"
address came 13 months follow-
ing Mitchell's assignment to Chief
Executive Officer responsibilities
at TRA.

In a summary-style presenta-
tion, Mitchell's review of opera-
tions focused on AH-64 Apache
operations, Firebee aerial target
system enhancements, Model 324
advanced technology RPV sys-
tem. Model 410 long-endurance
aerial vehicle and the spectacu-
larly successful development and
flight-test of a Model 350 proof-
of-concept medium-range Un-
manned Aerial Vehicle.

His talk also included reports
on tooling operations that involve
the C-17 Air Force airlifter transport
as well as F/A-18 subassembly
operations for Northrop as one
of the company's longest running
subcontracts of its kind.

Introduced by TRMA President
Dennis Bolger, Mitchell's audience
assembled at the Harbor Island

'TOP MANAGEMENT Night'
speaker March 30 was TRA
President Bob Mitchell, wlio
offered his second 'State of
the Company' address since
assuming responsibilities as
CEO in January 1988.

Marriott Hotel included nearly 200
members and guests. The eve-
ning's program included the se-
lection of TRA Vice President,
Human Resources Ken Carson
as recipient of the 1989 "Silver
Knight of Management."

In his second "Top Management
Night" address, Mitchell termed

FIREBEE is 'highest performing system of its kind,' according
to TRA President Bob Mitchell, who noted in 'State of Company'
talk March 30 that a product improvement program has been
applied to BQM-34A Firebees for the Air Force. Production
operations currently include Navy, Air Force and Army Firebees.

SUMMER 1989

TRA's Apache operations that in-
clude manufacturing and assembly
of the AH-64 airframe and major
flight structures under contract
to McDonnell Douglas Helicop-
ter Company "our number one
product."

Praising "all who are associated
with the program," he noted that
"we help build the best helicopter
of its kind in the U.S. Army in-
ventory" and called for continued
efforts in cost-reductions, quality
increases and the maintenance
of schedules.

Turning to TRA's Firebee op-
erations, Mitchell called it "the
highest performing system of its
kind," noting that product improve-
ments recently incorporated into
the BQM-34A Air Force version
Firebee included the Micropro-
cessor Flight Control System and

one of the finest of any I have ever
been associated with. Simul-
taneously, we also designed, de-
veloped and conducted a flight
test of the Model 350 proof-of-
concept on October 22, 1988."

Turning to the company's future,
Mitchell noted as a project goal the
growth of TRA into a $500 million
firm "not by inflation, but through
profit grow/th." One of the long-
term goals identified is also to
assume a role in the aerospace in-
dustry as a prime contractor in
areas of reconnaissance vehicles.

"We're good at what we do
and we're on track," he noted,
alluding to the company's his-
tory of pioneering leadership and
to the recognition it has earned
worldwide for its many firsts in
flight.

Mitchell emphasized the chal-

MODEL 350 'proof-of-concept" medium-range UAV was dis-
played as scale model for global audiences attending Sea-Air-
Space Exposition in Washington, D.C. in March. Bob Mitchell
is explaining performance qualities to Air Force visitors at
TRA's exhibit. Dave Campbell (second from right) represented
the Company during the annual, three-day event as a host.

an uprated turbojet engine.

"This is a perfect example of
keeping pace with our customer's
needs," he emphasized.

A status report on Model 324
RPV system deliveries to Egypt,
completed early this year: Model
410 long-endurance aerial vehicle,
which completed phase one, and
manned flight tests in 1988, was
also included in Mitchell's talk.

He told of the decision by TRA
to bid a new medium-range Un-
manned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) pro-
gram that was made in early 1988.
"The proposal we submitted in
response to the requirement is

lenges faced by TRA in the future,
relating to his audience that "we
must become creative, looking
always for better methods for do-
ing what we do and competence
in our performance."

He called for leadership at all
levels, noting that "this is a quali-
ty preserved throughout our
history."

Much of that history— over the
67-year period when the prede-
cessor Ryan Airlines, Inc. was
first established in San Diego-
was depicted in a video presen-
tation offered as a summary to
his talk.

(E)

CHUCK McGILL
Executive Vice President

RICK PETTIT
Vice President, Operations

BOB SCURLOCK
Vice President, Programs

BARREL HIRSCH
Vice President, Engineering

gineering. He brings to his new
assignment a career spanning
more than 30 years at Northrop
Corporation, and most recently
held responsibilities for Advanced
Design Manager at the B-2 divi-
sion and all new manned aircraft
with that company

Hirsch's responsibilities at TRA
will include management of de-
velopment engineering including
support as required to the Mid-
Range UAV project.

Mitchell also appointed David A.
Zaik Vice President, Quality As-
surance from former duties as Di-

NORM SAKAMOTO
Vice President, Mid-Range

McGill Takes New Post As Executive Vice President

New Structure
Outlined For
TRA Management

C. E. "Chuck" McGill has as-
sumed responsibilities at Teledyne
Ryan Aeronautical as Executive
Vice President in a move aimed
at enhancing the Company's com-
petitiveness and its work environ-
ment, according to Bob Mitchell.

TRA President, Mitchell an-
nounced a series of new appoint-
ments July 14, 1989 designed to
strengthen the Company's overall
program management.

Vice President and Controller
for Teledyne Continental Motors for
15 years prior to joining TRA in
1980 as Senior Vice President,
Administration, McGill has also
served as Financial Group Execu-
tive, Teledyne Pacific Group.

Included in the executive man-
agement organization announced
by Mitchell is Rick Pettit, formerly
TRA Vice President, Quality, and
a 22-year employee at TRA as
well as Teledyne Ryan Electronics.
Pettit succeeds Bill Cassidy, Se-
nior Vice President, Operations,
who has accepted a position with
another company

Pettit joined TRA in 1967 as
head of the Company's flight test
quality group based at Holloman
Air Force Base, N.M. His subse-
quent assignments include Direc-
tor and Vice President of Quality
Assurance at TRA and TRE.

In his new assignment, Pettit
will be responsible for Assembly
Fabrication and Machine Opera-
tions, Manufacturing Engineehng,
Industrial and Plant Engineering,
Tooling Design and Fabrication,
Material, Operations Control, Com-
puter Integrated Manufacturing,
and TRAM Operations.

TRA Vice President, Contracts,
Pricing and Subcontracts Bob
Scurlock has assumed new re-
sponsibilities as Vice President,
Programs, a newly created organi-
zation into which the essential
elements of each Company project
will be located, both functionally
and physically

The Program Office was estab-
lished to focus maximum attention
on individual project schedule, cost
and hardware performance.

Scurlock launched the produc-
tion of the AH-64 Apache oper-
ations at TRA after joining the
company in 1981 following a dis-
tinguished Air Force career

New to TRA this month is Dar-
rel L. Hirsch, Vice President, En-

DAVE ZALK
Vice President, Quality Assurance

rector, Quality Assurance.

Dave joined TRA in 1985 as
Factory Manager on Apache as-
sembly operations. In his new post,
Zaik's responsibilities include Qual-
ity Assurance operations, Engi-
neering, Materials, Processing and
Supplier Quality, as well as Safety,
Health and Environmental Affairs.

Norm Sakamoto has also been
appointed Vice President and Pro-
gram Manager for the Mid-Range
UAV full-scale engineering de-
velopment. TRA holds responsi-
bilities to the Naval Air Systems
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JERRY SOLTYS
Executive Director Contracts/Pricing

TELEDYNE

RYAN AERONAUTICAL

COMPANY ORGANIZATION CHART

BOB MITCHELL

PRESIDENT

DARHEL HIRSCH

RICK PEniT

VICE PnESIDENI
OPERATIONS

TONY RICHARDS

mCE PRESIDENT
TARGETS/SUBCONTRACT?
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

NORM SAKAMOTO

VICE PRESIDENT

BOB SCURLOCK

VICE PRESIDENT
PROGRAMS

DAVE ZALK

VICE PRESIDENT

QUALITY ASSURANCE

ARDEN HONRUD

CONWARD WILUAMS

SUMMER 1989

PHOOEY ON FADS!

WORK HIS ELSXiR

At Age 73, 'Casey' Rated Tops As Employee

Brent A. "Casey" Kaishas can't account for
his work capacity. Other than the fact that,
"I like it. It gives me pleasure. There's nothing
I'd rather be doing."

All of which brings much pleasure into the
life of Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Machine
Shop Manager Bob Atkins' life.

Atkins regards "Casey" as an employee of
exemplary work stan- ^^^ ^, .

dards. He is a self-
starter, according to
Atkins, an employee
of thoroughly reliable
work standards and
qualities. And a man
who frets over sched-
ules and tasks that fail
to meet deadlines.

"I know, without
question, that he's go-
ing to be at work on
time. He'll ask for no
passes out," observes
"Casey's" boss, who
recalls flooded con-
ditions several years
ago that delayed the
start of the company's
first shift operations.

"Casey took off his
shoes, rolled up his
trouser cuffs and wad-
ed on in!"

Granting an inter-
view with reluctance
last month, the Iowa-
born Casey admitted
that he may possess
a need for daily work
routine that is more
compelling than others
experience. But this, he insists, is instinctive.

"I've been assigned to Department 130
(Machine Shop) since 1948. It is my way of
life. And I like it."

"But you're 73 years old," a reporter pro-
tests. "You're well past a customary retire-
ment age. You're entitled to a carefree life of

retirement, drawing Social Security benefits."
Casey mulls this over, acknowledging the
options that have awaited him starting eight
years ago. He admits that his wife of 34 years,
Dorothy Kaishas, has tried several times to
broach the subject.

"Look. If a man is healthy happy at work,
productive, and contributing to his employer.

CASEY' Kaishas hit 73 this year, 41 of those years spent with TRA

why quit? I've watched as my friends and
neighbors did that. Then I've watched them
slowly pass on. Maybe they didn't feel needed
any longer."

How else, at his age, can a man or woman
enjoy each and every day a feeling of vital-
ity equal to standing over a lathe, turning

out a component for an Apache helicopter or
Firebee. Casey asks. He tells of once work-
ing on precisioned titanium landing radar
housings for the Apollo moon landings and
other monuments of the past with which he
has been associated.

"A person builds up loyalties toward his
employer and disciplines toward his work.
It becomes a way of
life. Your best friends
become those with
whom you spend eight
hours each day, all
working toward com-
mon goals and objec-
tives." It is a state-
ment from Casey that
narrows to a focus on
today's turbulent life-
styles.

He suggests that
some of America's
most formidable prob-
lems are traced to the
absence of work eth-
ics that he has en-
joyed: personal pride in
craftsmanship, achiev-
ing quality standards
in the finished product,
and possessing con-
fidence in completing
a very complex task as
part of a team effort.
Casey snorts with
disgust over America's
loss to Japan and other
nations of its superior
capabilities in engi-
neering and manufac-
turing. "Somehow, we
have simply lost our desire to compete,"
he concludes.

Now, it's a matter of regaining that desire.
The process includes "a certain amount of
allegiance to work disciplines. With the proper
attitude, work can be made a lot of fun, enjoy-
able and rewarding," Casey insists.

Harbor View Medical TRA Drug-Free Policy Told

Center DeSICinateCi * Ernployees are expected and required to report to work on time and in appropriate mental

** and physical condition for work. It is the intent and obligation of TRA to provide a drug-free,

healthy, safe and secure work environment.

The manufacture, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance
on company premises is absolutely prohibited. Violation of the policy will result in disciplinary
action, up to and including termination.

TRA recognizes drug dependency as an illness and a major health problem. TRA also
recognizes drug abuse as a potential health, safety and security problem. Employees needing
help in dealing with such problems are encouraged to use the TRA Employee Assistance
Program and health insurance plans, as appropriate. Conscientious efforts to seek such
help will not jeopardize any employee's job.

Employees must, as a condition of employment, abide by the terms of the above policy and
report any conviction under a criminal drug statute for violations occurring on TRA company
premises. A report of a conviction must be made within five (5) days after the conviction.
This requirement is mandated by the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988.

The Harbor View Medical Center, located
at 120 Elm Street, is now in use as Teledyne
Ryan Aeronautical's primary care facility for
employee work-related injuries or illnesses
requiring medical treatment.

Both medical care and treatment can be
obtained 24 hours daily at that facility and
are available, except for emergencies, by ap-
pointment only. The telephone number is
619-232-4331.

TRA employees must use this designated
medical center unless authorization has
been otherwise granted in writing for use
of other facilities.

SUMMER 1989

EMPLOYEE groups of 20 are undergoing ethics training course

Employee Ethics Training Course Introduced By TRA

Standards Of Conduct
At Work Included In
Awareness Program

In April, the TRA Ethics Office introduced a
new ethics awareness training program pro-
viding seminars for small groups of employees.
The TRA Ethics Officer, Conward E. Williams,
stated that the seminar approach is directed
toward addressing ethics issues faced by our
employees in the day-to-day performance of
their jobs in their individual departments.

Brad Hamlin, TRA Staff Attorney, and TRA
Training Administrator Nicki DeNecochea, are
the seminar leaders supported by an Ethics
Training Committee with representation for all
TRA departments.

In one-hour periods, enrollees explore wide
ranges of business ethics issues confronted
under hypothetical circumstances.

Through open discussion of these situations
and references to the Teledyne Code of Busi-
ness Conduct, Williams believes employees
are better equipped to conduct themselves in
an ethical manner in the work environment.

Hamlin notes that the hypothetical situations
to which classroom discussion is devoted come
from various departments throughout the com-
pany Representation is given to all operations.
And thus, the training course assumes a per-
sonality of individual interest to all.

The discussion-type training, devoted more
to awareness of proper or acceptable conduct
standards, gains the active participation by all
enrolled in the program. "It helps our people
think before they act," he explains.

According to Hamlin, rigid guidelines influenc-
ing conduct codes simply do not exist for all situ-
ations in life. The Code of Business Conduct,
published by Teledyne, Inc. in 1986 and again
last year, lists policy and procedures in areas
prominently identified with business operations.

Williams emphasized that employees should
use the Teledyne Code of Business Conduct
as a quick reference for ethics issues, but
any employee having questions may call his
office at Ext. 4305.

He noted that a new ethics poster has been
placed on departmental bulletin boards giving
the TRA Ethics Hotline, 1-800-727-RYAN and
Post Office Box 80383, San Diego, California,
92138-0383 for reporting ethics code violations.

Call Sounded For
Summer League
Bowling Action

Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical employee
bowling competition started May 17 at the
Clairemont Bowl, according to TRA Bowling
Commissioner Rudy Halabuk.

A call has been issued, soliciting employee
participation on Wednesday evenings, starting
at 6:30 p.m. The cost is $7.50 per person.

Information can be obtained on the forma-
tion of league team schedules from Halabuk
during work hours at Ext. 5329.

<D SUMMER 1989

^^Speaking of Safety — =

By RON DUKE
TRA Safety Administrator

Sometimes We Learn By Experience

N.

RDrtunately we've
escaped fatalities
twice since the ear-
ly beginnings of this
year in two sepa-
rate industrial acci-
dents, each being
extremely volatile,
threatening our com-
pany with far greater
damages or injuries.
The difference in
both cases was the presence of our Emer-
gency Response Team (ERT): trained volun-
teer employees who respond professionally
to realistic emergency conditions.

Our ERT members have been formally
recognized for their deeds. Expressions
of the company's gratitude have been
awarded. And, for all practical purposes,
the accidents and resulting consequences
have become a part of the record.

I believe, however, that our daily life-styles
in the work environment move at a pace that
leaves too little time to fully absorb the
significance of emergency teamwork, the
kind that was witnessed earlier this year
There was a recent parallel, a corres-
ponding emergency that claimed the lives
of 47 crewmen aboard the battleship USS
Iowa. An explosion within one of the ship's
16-inch turrets threatened the lives of all

aboard and the ship itself.

Clearly there's a major distinction be-
tween TRA's accidents earlier this year
and the loss of life and damages incurred
aboard the USS Iowa. The similanties.
though, draw into sharp focus the demands
for emergency response. Aboard the USS
Iowa, damage control teams are credited
for helping avoid greater loss of life and the
possible loss of the old battlewagon itself.

Those Navy damage control teams were
prepared for the contingency: each man
knew instinctively his assignment and,
through disciplined training, responded
fully to the action required.

We know by experience that our work
environment includes a sometimes care-
less action that can result in injury. I've
preached long and hard on safety proce-
dures in the workplace, planning out a
task that will expose you to the maximum
possible protection from accidental injury.

Sometimes, it takes a realistic experience
of life-threatening proportions to get our
attention. Hopefully we're going to repeat
a period of many years like that in the past
before another serious injury occurs.

In the meantime, there is great comfort
in knowing that our Emergency Response
Team strategy works in times of peril.
And that its members are here, at hand,
when needed.

'CALL ME JOE!'

FULFILLS QUEST

New 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' Captures Dreams

In his native Chinese heritage,
1989 Is the "year of the snake"
for the former Chou Cheng, a stu-
dent engineering intern assigned
to Teledyne Ryan Aeronautlcal's
Quality Department.

That period in the 24-year-old
San Diego State University gradu-
ate's life, though. Is In the past.

It now Is a bright, new future that
Joe Cheu Is shaping for himself—
as a naturalized U.S. citizen with
a new name to match.

Standing before U.S. Judge John
Rhodes on Friday, April 21, Joe
joined a War Memorial Building
hall filled with others taking their
oath of allegiance to their adopted
country.

For the quiet-spoken, ex-refugee,
It was perhaps the final goal In
a series of ambitions Joe has
nourished over a period of more
than nine years.

There once was a time when
the son of Chinese parents dared
not even to dream of reaching
America's shores. Those were the
years of anguish, desperation and
hopeless futility as a member of
a Cambodian family whose coun-
try was torn apart under Pol Pot's
rule. Joe recalled a childhood of
government discrimination against
Chinese refugees and his flight
to freedom.

Once a proud and prosperous
family as residents in Phnom Penh,
Joe was the sixth son In a fam-
ily of eight brothers and sisters.
Three brothers and his mother
were slain following the Commu-
nist takeover In mld-1975.

For five years to follow, he en-
dured the haunted life of escape,
constantly uprooted from one

sanctuary to another It Is an ex-
istence that led by September 1979
to the U.S. State Department and
immigration to San Diego.

"I could speak no English, but I
was determined to learn," recalled
Joe. Within his first year as an
eighth grade student, he fulfilled
that ambition. His disciplined life-
style pursued a rigid set of priori-
ties that Included at one period
holding two part-time jobs while
continuing his education.

"Educational opportunities and
professional training toward my
career goal, one that's established
by me instead of the government,"
became an obsession with Joe.
He credits employment by TRA
as a student Intern as a "turning
point" in his life as he completed
SDSU studies.

Interviewed for this story in late
1988, Joe insisted that fulfillment
of his dreams included yet one ma-
jor achievement — naturalization
as a citizen.

That accomplished, there Is a
professional career left to pursue.
And, there Is also a matter of family
life so richly cherished in his native
Chinese heritage.

"I hope to someday meet some-
one who I can marry and start my
own family," relates the young man
who once could only dream of am-
bitions unfulfilled.

Among those is the right to cast
his vote of choice for elected lead-
ers, to secure benefits to which
he's entitled as an American citi-
zen and to shoulder his respon-
sibilities that go with the freedoms
he now enjoys.

Joe Cheu's dreams have be-
come reality.

TRA In 1989 Paris Air Show

Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical was one of 17 Teledyne com-
panies to display Its product lines for international Paris Air
Show audiences attracted biennially to the world's oldest trade
show of Its kind.

TRA's Model 350 "proof-of-concept" medium-range Un-
manned Aerial Vehicle was a focal point of displays that Include
scale model FIrebee aerial target systems. The combined ex-
hibits by participating Teledyne subsidiaries at Le Bourget Field
comes at two-year Intervals.

The Model 350 test flight article completed its 22-mlnute flight
Oct. 22, 1988 at Mojave, Calif, as a prototype vehicle that can
be air- or ground-launched into flight.

TRA President Bob Mitchell headed a TRA contingent of ex-
ecutives who will host visitors to the Teledyne exhibit area.
Product briefings and literature were distributed to visitors,
offering familiarity with capabilities the products possess.

TRA Vice President Tony Richards said that the Paris Air Show
tops the company's annual list of trade show activities.

NEW CITIZEN— Joe Cheu, engineering Intern at TRA, took
oath of allegiance as new U.S. citizen April 21 from U.S. Dis-
trict Court Judge Johin Rhodes, capturing latest in a series
of goals since coming to America nine years ago.

EEO Position Reaffirmed

On an annual basis It is Teledyne
Ryan Aeronautlcal's wish to reaf-
firm our position in regard to equal
employment opportunity and af-
firmative action.

All employment and personnel
practices of the company shall
comply with all laws, regulations
and directives governing nondis-
crimination In employment.

No employee or applicant will be
discriminated against because of
race, color religion, sex, national
origin or age.

Physically and mentally handi-
capped individuals. Disabled Vet-
erans and Veterans of the Vietnam
Era will be provided equal employ-
ment opportunity for any position
for which they qualify, so long as
the position does not endanger
said person's health or safety or
the health or safety of co-workers.
TRA Invites those Individuals with
disabilities who need reasonable
accommodation to contact a mem-
ber of the EEO staff.

Harassment on the basis of
sex, whether physical or verbal
In nature, by supervisors, agents
or fellow employees, will not be
tolerated. It shall be the policy of
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical to
maintain a workplace free of sex-
ual harassment and Intimidation.

Employment shall be on the

SUMMER 1989

basis of merit, qualification and
competency to perform the job
or position to be filled.

Promotions, transfers, layoffs
and terminations shall be made
on the basis of merit, qualifica-
tion and competency with con-
sideration of seniority as provided
by union contract provisions and
company policy.

In-plant training and company-
sponsored or paid out-of-plant
training shall be available to all
company employees on the same
uniform basis and decided by the
same criteria.

Company-sponsored or sup-
ported recreational and sports
activities shall be available to all
company employees on a uni-
form basis.

Any employee acting on be-
half of the company in dealing
with applicants and employees
shall scrupulously and In good
faith conform with the principles
and provisions of all applicable
legal requirements and diligently
pursue the objectives of Teledyne
Ryan Aeronautlcal's Affirmative
Action Programs.

Government posters regarding
equal employment practices shall
be displayed in all company em-
ployment offices and on company
bulletin boards.

EMS Adds Zip To
Communications

The speed and flexibility of a
phone call have been success-
fully combined with precision and
accountability through use of an
Electronic Mail system now on line
at Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical.

The system, according to Dan
Dotson, TRA Management Sys-
tems Department, is now available
throughout the company

The software, called Electronic
Mail System (EMS) has been in
use by other Teledyne computer
systems for several years and is
now available on TRA's IBM 3081
mainframe. Dotson said that ap-
proximately 80 individuals repre-
senting 12 departments are using
the EMS for a variety of commu-
nications functions.

The system's features include
a full text editor with word-wrap
and paragraph flow capabilities
as well as the ability to transmit
documents to one or more indi-
viduals, printers or routing lists.
The system includes a built-in fil-
ing system that includes forms
handling. It also includes a com-
prehensive calendar and schedul-
ing of groups as well as individuals.

The system's interconnected link
with other Teledyne computer sys-
tems facilitates electronic com-
munications with those terminals
quickly and efficiently, according
to Dotson. Among its current users
is the TRA Benefits Department,
which transmits accident and sick-
ness data to insurance carriers via
EMS. Transmission of this data
previously required three work days
plus postage and handling time.
With EMS, Dotson notes, "the full
process is completed in five min-
utes or less."

Maximization of the EMS is the
current objective with expansion
of benefits from its use to all TRA
departments as an inner-office
mail system.

Dotson explains that the EMS
has "leapfrogged" the company
onto a higher plateau of technol-
ogy and cost-effectiveness. "It
has helped overcome technologies
rooted in the 1950s and earlier And
has positioned TRA in a more com-
petitive posture in the process."

Additional information on the
EMS can be obtained by calling
Dotson at Ext. 1734.

Cobianchi In New Post

Thomas T Cobianchi has as-
sumed responsibilities at Teledyne
Ryan Aeronautical as Director,
Business Development/ RPV Pro-
grams, it has been announced by
TRA President Bob Mitchell.

Cobianchi's immediate prior af-
filiation was with the Electronics
Division, General Dynamics Cor-
poration in San Diego as acting
director of Advanced Programs.
He was responsible for the admin-
istration, planning and implemen-
tation of engineering activities.

Cobianchi had previously served
at GD Electronics as engineering
manager C3 with responsibilities
for technical direction of research
and development, facilities plan-
ning and related requirements.

His career includes an associa-
tion with Westinghouse Electric
Corporation in a variety of man-
agerial assignments in commer-
cial as well as defense products

TOM COBIANCHI

spanning more than 18 years.
This includes assignments as di-
rector of Marketing, Air Force and
Foreign Military in the Defense
Products division of Westinghouse
from 1982 to 1984.

'Firsts In Flight' Video Created

A 10-minute sound-on, color presentation incorporating highlights of
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical's history of manned and unmanned flight
is available for TRA employee use on overnight or weekend checkout
from the Technical Library.

Entitled "Firsts In Flight," the video is offered on a first-come-
first-served basis.

HEART OF Electronic Mail System is IBM 3081 mainframe which
can hold 1.2 billion characters of information. Senior system
programmer with Management Systems. Dan Dotson notes some
80 employees in 12 TRA departments are currently using EMS.

New Assignments Told

(Continued from Page 14)

Command under terms of a con-
tract awarded June 30. 1989 for
the MRUAV system.

Since 1957 and his initial asso-
ciation with TRA, Sakamoto has
managed a series of programs
related to Remotely Piloted Ve-
hicle design, development and
operations. In recent years, he
guided the highly successful de-
velopment of the Model 324 RPV
system under contract to the Egyp-
tian government. He also served
as Program Manager of the Model
350 proof-of-concept design and
development and flight-test pro-
gram culminating in late October

of last year with its 22-minute test
flight at Mojave.

His career includes an assign-
ment as Director, New Business
Development at TRE phor to his
return to TRA in 1984.

G.M. "Jerry" Soltys has as-
sumed responsibilities as Execu-
tive Director Contract. Pricing and
Subcontracts within the new man-
agement organization. His prior
responsibilities included Contracts
management, starting in 1982 vwth
his TRA association. Soltys' career
in aerospace includes 20 years of
experience with Rockwell Interna-
tional. United Aircraft Corporation
and General Dynamics.

TWIN' Honors Awarded

Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical's Jenny McReynolds was selected
as the recipient for Tribute to Women In Industry (TWIN) honors
at this year's civic luncheon which was held Thursday. June 1.

A supervisor of New Business Proposals, she joined 100 TWIN
honorees at the 10th annual awards ceremony which was spon-
sored by the San Diego YWCA. McReynolds was also profiled
in a special booklet that was distributed at the event.

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Eight Named
In Shift Of
Assignments

Mike Janus, a 23-year veteran
in aerospace management, has
assumed responsibilities at Tele-
dyne Ryan Aeronautical as man-
ager of Composite Operations,
reporting to Director of Fabrica-
tion, Ron Cotton.

Janus was one of eight named
to new posts May 11.

Included In those announced
changes are Bob Atkins, man-
ager of Machining Operations;
Leo Balsamo, manager. Industrial/
Plant Security: Bruce Ford, man-
ager, Scheduled Subassemblies;
Rodney Smith, manager, Tool Fab-
rication; Joe Wright. Operation
Control manager and Assembly
Production Control.

Also assuming new responsibili-
ties are Craig McQuillan, manager
of Targets and Subcontract Assem-
bly and Frank Henderson, man-
ager of second shift operations.

Anniversaries,

Promotions

Omitted

Coverage given to TRA em-
ployee anniversaries and promo-
tions was omitted in this edition.
When [he ACHIEVER resumes its
monthly frequency of publishing,
these features will be restored.

Caspian, Inc. Wins TRA Praise

TRA SMALL BUSINESS vendor for the year
1989 was given formal recognition in early
May to Caspian, Inc. President Cyrus Jaffari
(accepting awfard from Phil Overlund, repre-
senting Curt James and TRA Procurement
operations). Witnessing the presentation are
(from left) Jerry Tolson, Caspian production
manager, Ctiris Howre, production control

manager and TRA Small Business Admin-
istrator Chuck Nord. Specializing in ctiemical
milling, Caspian has been affiliated as a TRA
vendor 27 years. The company has slightly
more than 100 employees and is one of several
hundred companies throughout San Diego
area with whom TRA maintains contracts for
goods and services supporting Its operations.

-You Be The Judge

In this and succeeding Issues of the ACHIEVER, a senes of
hypothetical situations related to the application of Ethics in
the Business place will be presented for written responses by
TRA employees. These should be submitted to: C E. Williams.
Ethics Office. orJ.B. Hamlin In BIdg. TOO or mailed to Ethics.
P. O. Box 80383. San Diego. CA 92138-0383. The best responses
will be published in the following issue.

• • * * •

SITUATION #7: On your lunch break, you slip over to a local
auto supply to pick up a part for your car. The store clerk,
assuming you are there on TRA business, deducts 20 percent
from the cost of the part. The deduction has been negotiated
as part of a business arrangement between the dealer and
TRA. Are you under an obligation to tell the clerk you are on
personal businesss? Why or why not?

SITUATION HI: You are using a TRA company car to pick up
some equipment outside the plant. Because It is during your lunch
hour you also take several small side trips for personal business.
Your lunch break has been taken first for the official TRA business,
then for your personal business. Is this okay? Why?

Apache Team Cops Aivard
For Pride, Excellence

Team Center 013 holds the In-
augural "Pride In Excellence"
award this month, the first group
recognition to be paid under a
newly Introduced awards pro-
gram that engages all Manufac-
turing operations in a competition
In which overall Improvement is
the criteria.

Under the management of Dave
St. John and the supervision of
Joe Crutcher, the Apache team's
selection was based upon a six-
month evaluation of all team cen-
ter activities.

Presented April 24 by Vice
President Rick Pettit, the banner-
type award is on display at the
Team Center 013 work desk.

In brief, informal remarks, Pettit
Issued his praise for the Team's
consistent improvements in quality,
scheduling and related operations.

Team Center 013 Is comprised of
Alfredo Agredano, Romulo Bacod,

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Cray Cox, Amor Del Rosario,
Stephen Elcholtz, Michael Hlg-
gins, and Ambrose Jones.

Included also are Petie May-
nard, Robert Martinez, John Mor-
ton, Dionlsio Peralta, Marcelino
Phee and Michael RIebe.

TRA's "Pride In Excellence"
program is In effect company-wide,
covering three primary areas of ap-
plication. Phase one incorporates
individual and group employee
initiatives aimed at maintaining
cleanliness In the workplace.

New methodologies are part
of the program's second phase,
also already under way. The third
phase involves capital Investments
through acquisition of major equip-
ment designed to enhance pro-
ductivity.

Key to the success of the pro-
gram are objectives related to cost
reductions, quality Improvement
and maintenance of schedules.

'Silver Knight'^

Carson TRMA's Top Manager

'SILVER KNIGHT' — Ken Carson Is TRMA's recipient of the
professional management award for the 1988-1989 term.
Presentation was made March 30 at 'Top Management Night.'

TRA EXHIBIT visitors at Association of Unmanned Vehicle
Systems symposium In Washington, D.C. July 17-20 included
captains A. J. Olmstead (left) and P. E. Mullowney. Olmstead has
relieved Mullowney as Program Manager of Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles Joint Program Office. Exhibit featured TRA's models
324 and 350 medium-range Unmanned Air Vehicle system.

Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
Human Resources Vice President
Ken Carson is the recipient of this
year's "Silver Knight of Manage-
ment" award highlighting Teledyne
Ryan Management Association's
(TRMA) "Top Management Night"
program on March 30.

This coveted award represents
the highest order of professional
recognition that can be given at the
chapter level of National Manage-
ment Association activities.

A 23-year employee who be-
gan his career here, Carson as-
sumed his current position in 1984.
He is credited for introducing a
broad range of innovative pro-
grams responding to the needs
of an expanding company includ-
ing training more than 1,000 as-
semblers and other manufacturing
employees during a critical penod
of rapid growth associated with
the Apache program.

TRA's Employee Assistance Pro-
gram {the first in Teledyne). Drug
and Alcohol abuse policies, forma-
tion of an Emergency Response
Team and implementation of Haz-
ardous Materials management
and safety programs were created
under his direction.

Company-wide computer train-
ing, extensive management de-
velopment training, and the re-
cent successful negotiation of a
new labor contract add to the
list of accomplishments for which
Carson was selected as a "Silver
Knight."

Hired in 1967 to work in pur-
chasing-logistics operations, his
career includes assignment to
TRE as Personnel Manager in
1980 retuming to TRA four years

later to his current position.

TRMA President Dennis Bolger
in presenting the "Silver Knight"
award, cited Carson for quali-
ties of leadership and personal
acumen, praising the New York
state native for contributions that
"have significantly upgraded and
enhanced the Company's human
resource."

In accepting the award, Carson
credited his staff for recognition
that was paid to him. "A leader
gains that position as a direct
measure of the support that is pro-
vided by those under his or her su-
pervision. Our Human Resources
group IS one of the most dedicated
with whom I've ever been asso-
ciated," he emphasized.

Every day in this Company ac-
cording to Carson, "there are new
opportunities for career develop-
ment. Sometimes, those opportuni-
ties are not readily identified. It
may be a task that has distasteful
ful qualities. Once performed,
though, the response to require-
ment creates a bridge of oppor-
tunity," he reasons.

Educated for a teaching career.
Carson graduated from Western
Kentucky University as a Politi-
cal Science major and added a
Masters Degree in Education to his
formal studies. "What I was really
after when I joined this company
was two year's of work experience
that I could use as a foundation
for my career in industry and a
resume builder."

Fortunately for TRA and its 1 500
employees. Ken Carson never did
use that resume or his experi-
ence here to qualify for a posi-
tion elsewhere.

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